Parenting Journal · Volume 1 · Issue 3 · Licensed source edition
The Impact of Perceived Algorithmic Control on Gig Workers’ Turnover Intention: Mediating Roles of Perceived Usefulness and Psychological Contract Breach
Originally published 2026-05-13 · Behavioral Sciences
Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI) · DOI 10.3390/bs16050764 ↗
AI / system type
Perceived algorithmic control in gig platforms
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Perceived algorithmic control in gig platforms. Algorithmic management/control is not assumed to be machine learning or generative AI.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings psychological contract breach, time pressure and algorithmic control into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers multi-phase questionnaire and configurational analysis evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is psychological contract breach, time pressure and algorithmic control. Source setting or population: Gig workers participating in a platform-work survey. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
What promises do workers believe a platform has made to them?
This multi-phase questionnaire and configurational analysis examines psychological contract breach, time pressure and algorithmic control. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
Gig workers participating in a platform-work survey
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What promises do workers believe a platform has made to them?
- What do this study’s design and population — Gig workers participating in a platform-work survey — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering psychological contract breach, time pressure and algorithmic control, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Turnover intentions and perceived contract breach are observational measures, not actual departures or evidence that control is beneficial.
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Anbo Wu; Shihao Zhang; Linhui Sun; Xiaofang Yuan; Xinping Wang (2026). The Impact of Perceived Algorithmic Control on Gig Workers’ Turnover Intention: Mediating Roles of Perceived Usefulness and Psychological Contract Breach Behavioral Sciences. https://doi.org/10.3390/bs16050764
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